The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Abstract #47238

Ellen M Morrison, PhD¹, Ruth E. Matthias, PhD², and SA Chapman, PhD¹. (1) Center for the Health Professions, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 410, San Francisco, CA 94118, 415-514-2851, emm@itsa.ucsf.edu, (2) School of Public Policy & Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles, 3250 Public Policy Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656

In 1999, California Governor Gray Davis championed the Aging with Dignity Initiative, carving out $99 million of the state’s budget in order to increase the quality of seniors’ lives. The Caregiver Training Initiative (CTI) Project was one result of the initiative. Twelve collaboratives, each composed of members from multiple counties and/or agencies, received a total of $25 million in order to develop and implement innovative approaches to recruiting, training, and retaining long-term care workers. UCLA and UCSF have been contracted to evaluate the program. The primary focus of most collaboratives is on recruiting, training and retaining Certified Nurse Assistants from a pool of individuals eligible either for Welfare-to-Work or Workforce Investment Act assistance. These individuals are either under-employed or unemployed, some chronically. The presentation will review strategies used to recruit and train these workers as well as the difficulties faced by both the recruiting/training organizations and the recruits/trainees.

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